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Attendee Interactive's speaker system supports a number of functions necessary to tend to the needs of speakers, moderators, panelists, reviewers, and poster presenters. |
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Attendee Interactive's speaker system supports a number of functions necessary to tend to the needs of speakers, moderators, panelists, reviewers, and poster presenters. |
Filed under: Uncategorized Michael Tydings @ 1:55 pm on 17/12/07
I wanted to send a quick note today thanking the coordinators and moderators of the Emerge site.
I have posted the presentation in my links are please feel free to review.
Filed under: Speaker Managment Michael Tydings @ 8:36 am on 04/12/07
Hard to believe that its less than a week away. Having the opportunity to present our case study is exciting, and in preparing the presentation we reviewed our original discovery when we met with our customer, Complete Conference Management. Reviewing the “old way” bought back a lot of memories in how they handled their speakers. They used Access and then number of entries made to manage changes and availability had to be incredibly time consuming. That along with how they managed the submission of speaker forms certainly required a lot of time and numerous steps to verify who had done what.
Since CCM began using our system the have doubled the number of shows they manage and offer new services to their speakers.
We would love to tell you more but we’d rather do it face to face. I hope to see on Monday at EMerge, especially during our presentation. If you can’t attend feel free to send me a note.
Regard,
Michael
Filed under: Uncategorized Michael Tydings @ 8:47 am on 21/11/07
Going a little off topic to get our bloggers into the Spirit:
The term ‘Thanksgiving’ not only means expressing gratitude towards somebody but it also symbolizes the wonderful feeling of giving thanks. Many scholars have realized the richness of this term and therefore they have expressed their views on ‘gratitude’ or the ‘thanksgiving’ in the form of quotes and famous sayings. The Thanksgiving Day is a perfect occasion to collect the precious views or quotes of those scholars on the thanksgiving and to share them with your family and friends. As these quotes can help you express your views on thanksgiving as well. Here are some such Thanksgiving quotes and quotations for you…
1. “It is therefore recommended … to set apart Thursday the eighteenth day of December next, for solemn thanksgiving and praise, that with one heart and one voice the good people may express the grateful feelings of their hearts and consecrate themselves to the service of their divine benefactor …”-November 1, 1777 (adopted by the 13 states as the first official Thanksgiving Proclamation) ~ Samuel Adams
2. “It is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor.”-October 3, 1789b
3. “Gratitude is a lively sense of future favors.” ~ Anonymous
4. “Gratitude, in most men, is only a strong and secret hope of greater favors.”~ La Rochefoucauld
5. “Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.” ~ William Faulkner
6. “Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.” ~ Samuel Johnson
7. “If pity is akin to love, gratitude is akin to the other thing.” ~ George Bernard Shaw
8. “As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.” ~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy
9. “To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.” ~ Johannes A. Gaertner
Happy Thanksgiving to all!
Filed under: Speaker Managment Michael Tydings @ 1:33 pm on 19/11/07
Documents, such as hand outs, presentations, and abstract that have traditionally been available on site or printed in a syllabus are items that planners are looking for alternative ways to collect and provide access to so ther meeting goes Green.
I think we all know what the term means; if not, here is some interesting reading:
from Forbes.
Obviously there is a cost savings on the printing but what planners want to avoid is causing additional work for speakers. Speakers have to have a way to submit their items electronically. In many cases a planner or other staff person will need to have a process to review, proof, and possibly edit submitted items to ensure it meets the needs of the meeting and can be properly viewed online.
When looking for companies to provide methods of doing this, be sure to keep the needs of your speakers in mind so going Green can be made simple!
Filed under: Uncategorized Michael Tydings @ 9:15 am on 09/11/07
I am amazed at the number of forms speakers need to submit to be confirmed to speak at a Meeting. These forms and the “Status of” can be very daunting for meeting planners who receive forms via email, fax and even mail. Knowing who has submitted what, and who needs to be reminded can be very time-consuming and requires a good knowledge of spreadsheets to keep up with the process. I am sure some readers are very familiar with this.
Speaker management systems should offer planners easy-to-use tools to build these forms and have processes in place to remind speakers of deadlines.
There are a few more “Tricks of the Trade” I’d like to share with interested readers. Chime in and let’s get a dialogue going.
JMT
Filed under: Uncategorized Michael Tydings @ 12:23 pm on 09/11/07
I recently met with a meeting planning company who has a customer who is looking at solutions to provide access to forms and documents for speakers. What was interesting was how they felt they needed to set up a mobile process so the completion of the forms could be done from a smart phone or web enabled devices. Having been in the industry for a few years… It was refreshing to see a new approach. I was looking for input from meeting planning companies or planners who might want to share there insight on how they use technology to serve their speakers.
Filed under: Speaker Managment Michael Tydings @ 8:30 am on 09/11/07
Event planners can spend many man hours organizing speaking assignments. As a planner how are you doing it today? What are the key factors used to set up the program? How are you alerted when a conflict arises? How is the speakers schedule communicated.
Love to seem some comments on what is happening at your organization..
Filed under: Uncategorized Michael Tydings @ 10:27 am on 08/10/07
We recently were contacted by a prospect who was using 20 access databases to manage speakers and other key needs for their conferences. Upon review of the files we found many duplicate records and departments who had to do duplicate entry in hopes of keeping everything in sync.
Show mangers should step back and look at how many databases exist in their operation as this might be a key identifier that its time to look for a new way!
Filed under: Uncategorized Michael Tydings @ 9:53 am on 08/10/07
I want to thanks IAEE for the opportunity to have us on board to discuss Managing speakers. The goal of my Blog is to provide the IAEE community with helpful hints or a tricks of the trade if you will, on how speakers needs are being managed as well as what tools are offered to the speaker to insure they complete the requirements for speaking at your conference.
That said please Blog in when ready.
